Any help is appreciated-I was rejected yesterday from UT School of Nursing. Can I appeal and ask to be reconsidered into a different college?
Also, will I hear a response from my second choice college? Or is it one answer to both colleges?
I was offered CAP.
My stats: Female/white/TX resident, SAT 1390, GPA 4.9, Rank 27% (in a high school with over 50 national merit scholars)
Volunteer at hospital, NHS, Church group, leadership positions.
-Looking back I should have transferred to less competitive HS at end of 10th grade
You won’t hear from the second choice school at this point. You’ve been offered CAP. You need a basis for appeal- something not in the file at time of application or an error (not of your own making).
Can you do nursing at your cap school?
Where else have you applied?
An appeal is very unlikely to succeed. Your rank still isn’t within range for UT.
Focus on other schools and if you’re worried about acceptances or costs, you still have time to send an application to some colleges. Some common app colleges are still accepting applications.
Thank you. No and the irony is of the listed courses for the CAP program-I have already AP tested out of about 1/2 of them. Nursing is an option at the CAP schools-but not for the CAP students. I will just have to move on and get past the fact that the drug dealer of my school who spend most of year in rehab got into UT Fine Arts & the top 7% of high schools that have failing scores on the STAAR tests can get in but I get cap.
My high school was just listed in the top 10 in state of TX. It is a penalty to go to a highly competitive high school-because had I changed schools (like many in my class) I think I would have been higher in rank. Also nursing college is small and I should have applied to another college and then transferred. I learned this too late. GPA, classes, extracurriculars, & academic rank of high school doesn’t count for much if you don’t hit that rank.
They matter once you’re within that rank (admission doesn’t mean you get your major) but not before.
Don’t pay too muchartention to what other students are saying. For instance, many cap 'ed students have been known they got in.
Can you start nursing at another school, not under CAP, and then try an external transfer after a year. From what I read, unless you want to go into the School of Liberal Arts, your chances for an external transfer is as good as being in the CAP program. Pick another school with a good nursing program that you could be happy at for 4 years but give a transfer a try after a year. BTW, I totally understand your frustration. I have seen many good students who could do very well at UT get passed over but you can do very well at another school.